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Hemiathus macranthem, you call it pearlweed, I've also heard baby tears (not HC that'd be dwarf baby tears)
Ahhh
Here's some close ups of it
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Hes even more colourful today
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Fed him some baby brine shrimp today, he enjoyed them


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This guy has not accepted frozen food yet though. But that's okay, I don't mind doing live food either. Hatch baby brine shrimp no issue, and can do other live foods as well for variety. He really liked the mosquito larvae, but definitely a seasonal food for him.
 
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Thanks for the close up plant pics, Noodle. That seems like longer leaves than I remember my HM having. Emersed vs submerged maybe? I don't know...there's also MM, similar I think, micrathemum micramoides? I just try whatever my plant clubbers share ;)

Acorn is looking prettier by the day! I love that you are feeding him such great live foods, I know I don't have the patience lol.
 
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Thanks for the close up plant pics, Noodle. That seems like longer leaves than I remember my HM having. Emersed vs submerged maybe? I don't know...there's also MM, similar I think, micrathemum micramoides? I just try whatever my plant clubbers share ;)

Acorn is looking prettier by the day! I love that you are feeding him such great live foods, I know I don't have the patience lol.
It's submersed, the plant. Just the tank is shallow, and the plant has been left to grow so it looks like a taller plant. With such a narrow tank, gotta pick plants that would normally be used as a foreground plant as a background plant. I know it's it's true pearlweed, not the kind also called baby tears. I kill that one lol

I'm used to hatching baby brine shrimp, thanks to the baby fish. So hatching those for him isn't a problem.

And mosquito larvae are easy if you've got a planter outside with some water lettuce just kicking around where you can harvest them from it. Just collect, strain, then rinse, then house them in a jar to siphon out with a pipette. They'd be a seasonal food though.

Hes pretty fat from all the food yesterday lol
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And a gif of him hunting mozzie larvae, he loves them
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Can you believe this is the same fish??

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I cant get him to take frozen daphnia or such, but I can trick him into taking frozen bloodworms.
Mozzie larvae are all done for the season.

Aside from the frozen, he gets live baby brine shrimp.

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Had to trim his pearlweed, crazy plant. A lot of the epiphyte tissue cultures melted to oblivion in the front, unfortunately.
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